Saturday, May 30, 2020

Dark Days

- I've been watching Inspector Morse and Prime Suspect on PBS, but all of a sudden they will stop airing these shows after the end of May.  And AMC are not airing any episodes of Line of Duty beyond Season 3.  This is an absolute tragedy - how am I going to get my weekly fix of British detective shows (without subscribing to another streaming service)? 

- It is quite literally a dark day today.  After a couple of warm and sunny days, we've been hit with a load of tropical type storm systems - dark clouds, heavy rain, thunder and lightning etc.  Very unusual for round here.  Good job I went for a long walk yesterday, because I'm not going anywhere today.

- And finally, what do you get when you combine a pandemic, increasing unemployment, a probable recession, a cop killing a black man caught on video, and an unhinged president who encourages violence and protest?  You get the kind of scenes we saw in American cities last night - and probably also tonight and who knows for how much longer.  Of course, when the president - and I emphasize THE PRESIDENT - tweets racially insensitive things like "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." and then throws a hissy fit when Twitter finally attached a warning to one of his tweets about glorifying violence (something they should have done a long time ago) - well things are quickly going to escalate.

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